1963

Pondering a career change? Most of us seem to follow the straight and narrow path, with a little deviation from time to time. But Glen Gale went at it big and effectively, from Spanish professor to real estate developer, without leaving home. After earning a Ph.D. in Romance languages from Johns Hopkins, Glen joined the faculty at the University of Michigan and taught there for five years. The business bug bit him in 1973 (that's a period in life, psychologists say, when we sometimes make a career change), and he launched the International Study Abroad Organization that offered the first private commercial study program for Americans in Moscow.

Glen's on-the-job business training continued through two other businesses he founded, one a copying and printing company and the other a travel agency. But by 1978 he had sold the three businesses and launched Campus Commercial Properties, always in Ann Arbor, a division of Glen Ross Gale Associates, Inc. Campus Commercial Properties owns, manages, and leases property and specializes in developing retail/office complexes at prime university campus locations. Glen has brought ice cream shops, restaurants, a book store, and a printing center to the Michigan campus. The Ann Arbor Observer called him "the premier recruiter of chains into the downtown area . . . who frequently endures long vacancies in his quest to land major national tenants." "While I loved teaching," says Glen, "I have found real estate investment and development more dynamic, exciting, stimulating, and enormously more financially rewarding."

Part of the motivation seems to be four sons, ages ten to 17, all of whom have been or are about to be bar mitzvahed and educated. Glen's wife, Sharyn (8.A., UCLA), also got into the act, starting Color Your Life, Ltd., a color consultancy, when she's not writing novels.

Glen's keen eye for campus improvement gives Dartmouth the grade of A for its coed atmosphere and new restaurants. Then there's the classmate who went from high school French teacher to public relations consultant and class notes writer. But that's another story.

Better to note that Richard Borofsky was a musician in France and a high school English teacher and is now a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Cambridge, Mass., and has a directorship of the Boston Gestalt Intitute. He and wife Antra, also a psychologist, have a daughter, Nadine.

Or to point out that John Westwater has left what he calls "the security blanket of the law" to join Korn/Ferry, the largest executive search firm in the world. "Interestingly," says John, "this is the first time that a practicing lawyer has joined Korn/Ferry, so I think of myself as something of a test case. My 18 years of experience in corporate law, acquisitions, and business transactions will hopefully have some transferability." John is based in the Los Angeles area.

Povl Jorgensen reports that he left old Mother Ford some time ago, "tired of the big automotive bonuses." He then ran Great Lakes Steel, aluminum subsidiary of National Intergroup, Pittsburgh, as senior vice president. His wife, Barbara, and kids, Greg and Beth, are settling into their new home. Greg will apply to Dartmouth in about ten years. The family is highly musical, including the cat.

Among those who have stuck it out through thick and thin are Bill Blumenschein, a maritime lawyer with Prudential Lines in New York, and Mike Letis, a sports marketer, who with a partner has just started his own business, Sports Marketing and Television International, Inc., in Greenwich, Conn. Mike's new company does business with the networks and major sports entities like the NFL, NBA, Olympics, and thoroughbred racing. Their most recent accomplishment was the marketing and producing of "The Breeder's Cup," the Superbowl of thoroughbred racing, aired on NBC.

Tom Mclnerny in Rochester, N.Y., continues to practice and teach pediatrics, but he's been able to divert himself by becoming an award-winning photographer. His wife, Beverly, is a painter and runs a fine arts gallery in Rochester while raising four kids: Michael, 18, a junior at Carnegie Mellon (that's right, a junior - evidently the lad had enough credits to start college as a sophomore last year. And I barely exempted French I); Ann Marie, 17, to enter Skidmore; Matt, 17, avid skier, to apply to Dartmouth; and Laura, 14, a high school freshman. Tom and Beverly would like to hear from Greg and Val Gates and Paul Kraus.

Congratulations to Dave Butler on the publication of The Fall of Saigon (Simon and Schuster) on the tenth anniversary of the end of the war; to Jim Palik on becoming a managing partner of the New York law firm, Rogers, Hoge, and Hills, and to Peter Israelson on his marriage to Susan Finesman. Peter is a partner and director in the television production firm of Levinson, Israelson, and Bell in New York. But if you called in April, you had to ask for Levinson or Bell, because Peter was on his honeymoon.

That's it for another year. Thank goodness. My computer printout list of class names is too jumbled jo find another name this year, and we all need a vacation anyway. Some reminders: our class is off to a slow start in the Green Derby competition for fund-raising, so, alas, we'll have to dig deeper. And the Schaef has reserved a room in the Hanover Inn for cocktails, November 2, after the Dartmouth Night Weekend game. Maybe I'll see you there. Till the fall.

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Harry Zlokower '63 was named Class Secretary of the Year for 1985 in May. A public relations account executive, he has employed creative efforts to discover details of his classmates' lives and has not missed a column in more than three years. He has also written two profiles of classmates and sent in many interesting photographs to illustrate his columns. His "understanding of the fine points of journalism" makes him a valuable secretary to classmates and editors alike.